Gorsky memo

The Gorsky memo is an internal KI document, dated December 1948, written by Anatoly Gorsky, chief of Soviet intelligence in the United States during World War II. It lists 43 Soviet sources and intelligence officers likely to have been identified to U.S. authorities following the defections of Whittaker Chambers, Hede Massing, Elizabeth Bentley, Louis Budenz and Alexander Koral. It was discovered in the KGB files by former KGB agent Alexander Vassiliev during the brief opening after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1993–96, when he was permitted to make notes of some KGB archives. The contents became public as part of Vassiliev v Frank Cass & Co Ltd., a 2003 libel case in the United Kingdom, identified as "transcript of KGB file 43173 vol.2 (v) pp. 49-55, attached to Alexander Vassiliev to Hartwig, 1 February 2002, in Alexander Vassiliev and Frank Cass & Co Ltd, High Court of Justice Queen's Bench Division Claim No. HQ1X03222, Amended Particulars of
Claim." Vassiliev donated his original notes the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, which posted them online in 2009. The translation is by Philip Redko, with annotations by Vassiliev and Library of Congress Cold War historian John Earl Haynes.

“X” – Joseph Katz, our old agent/group handler, co-owner of a cover that we set up — a glovemaking factory. Currently in Italy, forming a company on our instructions to cover the illegal courier line between Europe and the USA.